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In Vivo Quantitative Assessment of Myocardial Structure, Function, Perfusion and Viability Using Cardiac Micro-computed Tomography
Published on: February 16, 2016
[Myocardial perfusion imaging and coronary artery disease : recent technological innovations]
Thomas Lejeune1, Céline Derwael1, Claire Bernard1
1Service de Médecine nucléaire, CHU Liège, Belgique.
Abstract:
Cardiovascular diseases represent the first cause of mortality in the world. Various exploration methods exist to prevent and diagnose them. Among them, cardiac scintigraphy holds a predominant place. There are various equipments and procedures for its realization. We compared the practical aspects of using a conventional Anger camera (Symbia, Siemens) according to a two-days examination protocol with a dedicated cardio CzT camera (D-Spect, Spectrum Dynamics) according to a two-days protocol and a 360°SPECT/CT CzT camera (Veriton, Spectrum Dynamics) according to a one-day protocol. The use of CzT detectors allows a reduction of the activity injected to the patient and of the acquisition time in order to make this examination faster and less irradiating for the patient.
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